THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol.86 No.35
October 13.1975
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Staff Photo by DON PIERCE
Leaf troubles behind
I have seemed to be no better way to spend a Sunday afternoon than to play in the leaves for John Kennedy and his daughter. High temperatures in the 90s brought a taste of summer to a traditional fall activity.
Senate size cut rejected
By JIM BATE Staff Writer
By JIM BATES
The Student Senate Rights and Responsibilities Committee voted yesterday against cutting Senate membership by half.
The idea, however, is far from dead.
The committee defeated by an 8+ vote a motion favoring a proposal by Ed Rolfs, student body president, to reduce the Senate from 110 to 60 members. Rolfs said after the meeting the vote showed there was enough support to hastily submit it to the Senate as a bill.
Such a bill, which would pettit the University Council to cut the Senate's size, probably would be referred to the rights committee, he said.
Rolfs also said that John House, Senate treasurer, who voted on the question of reducing Senate membership wasn't a member of the committee and had no vote. Rolfs, who explained his idea to the committee at the meeting but left before the voting, said he was surprised when he was told House voted.
HOUSE SAID HE WAS LISTED on the committee's membership roll and he assumed the listing meant he was a member.
Britt Buckley, Elections Committee chairman, told the rights committee his委员会 would begin discussing Tuesdays' elections. Mr. Buckley said his committee would consider a motion to eliminate the requirement of president- vice president coalitions and a new system for voting.
He suggested that rights committee members attend the meeting.
The rights committee twice defeated motions to send Rolfs' proposal to the Elections Committee. The motions lost 8-6 and 8-8.
Robert's Rules of Order say a tie defeats a motion.
Bernard Willard, committee member, said he thought Rolf's proposal might help decrease senators' workloads if he said meeting was necessary. Senate meeting questions had been asked more than once.
ROLFS TOLD THE COMMITTEE that cutting Senate membership would make the
Senate more manageable, responsive and inductive. The Senate increases the rate, senior server's responsibility.
"Look at a Senate meeting," he said,
"and there are some useless.
The sup. 19 to 12 people."
Teddie Tasself, committee member, said she would have agreed with Rolfs earlier about a small group running the Senate but not the Senate itself, of senators who snatch at the last meeting.
STEVE MCMURRY, committee cochairman, said decreasing the size of the Senate was contrary to his idea of a more democratic system. Some committee members agreed.
Others said a smaller Senate didn't mean the best people would be elected, but the more powerful senators.
popular persons always had been a problem in democracies.
Buckley said he would like to have as many people as possible at the Tuesday morning meeting.
The elimination of the Colleges Within the College means a whole new system of apportionment must be developed, Buckley said. He said his committee intended to study many possibilities and needed all the outside opinions it could get.
Rolfs agreed but said the election of
The rights committee agreed that Tashef should have the power to draft an amendment to a SenEx bill to specify how students should be selected for search committees. Tashef who is a SenEx member, will participate in amendment to SenEx's Friday meeting.
THE AMENDMENT were drafted for a bill that states dean selection policy.
The committee will vote Sunday on its final recommendations on the role of a director in the Kruseel gruppe, mittee co-chairman, who will on the committee's ideas, Mcmurry said.
Rolfs recommends cutoff of KUAC ticket subsidy
By JIM BATES
The off-again, on-again ticket subsidy debate is on again.
Ed Rolfs, student body president, has recommended that the Student Senate end the $14,000 ticket subsidy now given the University of Atlantic Corporation (KUAC).
Such a cut could mean an $8 increase in season basketball ticket prices and an $11 increase in season ice hockey tickets.
The ticket subsidy has been reconsidered by each of the past three Senates and has gone from $150,000 to $90,000 to the present $147,000.
IN A LETTER to the Senate Sports Committee, which will vote Wednesday on whether to continue the subsidy, Rolls said he would act as an attack on athletics or the KUAC.
The cut, Rolfs said, is merely a shift in priorities and won't hurt the KUAC. He said the KUAC had said it would get $300,000 of whether the subsidy was continued
(Mr. Clyde) Walker has said that he can carer for we give him $150,000 or nothing.
"It is really something that the Student Senate has to decide," he said.
WHATEVER DECISION the Senate makes, he said, would be all right with
Dave Shapiro, sports committee chairman, also said he hadn't read Rolfs' letter yet and really couldn't say whether he agreed with it until he'd given it more effort.
“It’s not a new thing and I’ve thought
this is really setting down to brass deck.”
Shapiro said that he'd like to see a poll of the entire student body on the subsidy but that the average student really wouldn't understand how KUAC worked.
Students now pay about $2 a year in activity fees to the KUAC, he said. This means cutting the subsidy would cost the football ticket buyer a maximum of $2 and actually save the basketball ticket buyer $1, Rolfs said.
Rofs said the effect on students of ending the subsidy would be minimal.
HOWEVER, HE SAID the change could
add of combined football-basketball
tickets $15
Football ticket prices could increase from $10 to $11 without the subsidy and basketball
Ruling on Lewis hearing awaited
A decision on whether the University of Kansas Judiciary will hear the case of Stephen Lewis, former assistant professor of social welfare, will be made early this week, according to James Masuda, chairman of the judiciary.
AT A PRELIMINARY JUDICIARY
INTAKE LAW, to dismiss
Law's case was discussed.
The motion was made by Mike Davis, University general counsel and attorney for the charged parties, the School of Social Welfare; David Hardcastle, associate dean of the school; and Margaret Schutz, associate professor of social welfare.
Davis alleged that the hearing division of the Kansas Judiciary was without jurisdiction, under the Senate Code, in cases involving the hiring processes.
Edward Collister, attorney for Lewis,
said the policies being questioned by Lewis
in his charges weren't policies made by the
lawyers. The counsel for Chancellor
Arctius R. Dykes, and his office.
Masuda said the hearing simply afforded both the charged and the charging parties the opportunity to give oral arguments for the summary dismissal.
COLLISTER SAID THAT if the hiring processes under question were determined to be official administrative policy, then the College would move somewhere besides the University Judiciary.
Davis said that if a policy affected appointment and then it was an administrative policy.
One of the questions discussed in the hearing whether the case involved University property.
Davis said the KU Committee on Tenure and Related Problems had jurisdiction in a case of *abuse* by a professor.
properly could be heard by the University Judiciary.
However, if the policies were made by a pa-
ter, university hierarchy below the adminis-
trator would be ignored.
Another complaint filed by Lewis and several other social welfare students was dismissed without prejudice, which means that it can be relied the. The complaint侵入 committee, how Lewis hiring committee and how Lewis was treated by that committee.
MASUDA SAID THAT IF the motion for dismissal was denied, then the hearing would continue into the "substance" of Lewis' charges.
City to consider local labor union
If the motion for dismissal is granted, he said, then the hearing division will have no power to hear the case, and Lewis can prove that the case heard by another committee.
The decision on the motion will be made in the form of a memorandum of approval informed of Masugai's decision he said.
In a few weeks Lawrence City Commissioners will decide whether city employees will have a chance to experiment with a new local form of collective bargaining.
Bv IAN KENNETH LOUDEN
In contrast to huge urban centers like New York or Kansas City, both of which must deal with large state or national employers want a completely local union.
"WE WANT TO KEEP IT in the family." Dennis Smith, president of the Lawrence Sanitation Employees Association, said Thursday. "We believe the city of Lawrence can solve its own labor problems without bringing in outside organizations."
Although Lawrence firefighters have been petitionting the city for recognition since 1966, Lawrence never has accepted a collective bargaining unit.
THE COALITION wants be accepted as a Law Firm Public Employee Associations of Lawyers.
"THIS IS THE FIRST TIME they have taken熟人 notice of us," he said.
Alvin Samuels, president of the firefighters association, said the city's failure to recognize any bargaining units forced city employees to form the coalition.
Firefighters, the Lawrence Police Officers Association and the Lawrence Street Department Employee Association. The street department association also includes employees of the parks and recreation department.
The sanitation employees make up one of four associations asking for recognition as a collective bargaining coalition. The others are the Lawrence Association of
In fact, only nine cities in Kansas recently have recognized collective bargaining units
All these bargaining units follow the rules of Kansas Public Employer-Employee Relations Board (PEERB). According to state law, a municipal employee association can become part of PEERB if only the city recognizes it as a bargaining unit. PEERB provides over elections of union leaders and mediates between city employees and city officials.
However, Rolfs said he didn't think prices would increase that much.
formed of city employees. Kansas City,
Hoboken, Haitian侨区, opened Manhattan.
Halifax, Hamilton
ticket prices could increase from $10 to $18.
Rolfs said.
BUT LAWRENCE employees don't want to beame part of PEPEDR. They consider PEPEDR as their "parent."
Norm Forer, associate professor of social welfare and adviser to the association, said city employees wanted to show people they could take care of their own business.
"It's totally unique," he said. "We want to show that in a time when employees in
this country are raising hell, and bureaucracy is running wild, that Lawrence can work out its own problems without bringing in the state."1
"KUAC has an obligation to make sure students can get into games," he said. "It would be a bad deal if they wound up with 300 or 3,000 students buying tickets."
HOWEVER, MAYOR BARKLEY CLARK said that if the coalition was accepted, he would prefer using PEERB. PEERB has predetermined guidelines and machinery to use in case of disputes, he said. It also has a blog of legal precedence and experience.
"Most important," he said, "it has a specific prohibition against strikes. Although, I think, a strike is the furthest thing from the employees' minds."
SLIGHTLY MORE than 10,000 student tickets were sold this year.
Cutting the subsidy, Rofs said, would help get the students out of a position where ticket prices are dictated to them on a yearly basis. He said that every time in the classroom the students thought they had an understanding or agreement on prices, they didn't.
According to association representatives,
However, before deciding whether to use PEERB, Clark said, the city must determine whether the coalition represented a substantial majority of city employees.
See COLLECTIVE page eight
Rolfs said that cutting the subsidy also would enable the Senate to give more opportunities without increasing the activity of Kansan, the intramurals, the University Theatre and student service organizations which need that serious attention, he said.
Rufs said he decided to send the letter Friday.
"I've been talking about the subsidy for a long time," he said, "since I was a freshman."
decrease the "price elasticity" of ticket prices and make them more stable.
Rolfs said cutting the subsidy would help
Med Center fund request hinges on federal decision
By ALISON GWINN
A state supplement legislative request for KU Medical Center funds would be cancelled immediately if the Med Center regained some of its lost Federal funds, according to Russell Mills, associate vice chancellor for the Med Center.
Mills said that there was a possibility that Congress would pass a supplemental appropriation for capititation grants for funds for the remainder of this fiscal year.
The Med Center lost $691,000 in federal grants in July and $450,000 of this total was in capitation grants. Capitation grants are awarded on the basis of the number of medical students who enrolled and those who graduated.
"I have no way of evaluating the possibility of a supplemental appropriation for this year," he said, adding that the legislation was passed, the better.
"If there is a federal supplemental appropriation, I would hope it would be before the legislative budget requests in the spring," he said.
If the appropriation was made before Jan. 1, he said, then Med Center student fees wouldn't be raised from $750 to $1,125 for the spring semester.
Mills said, "However, there's a very, very, small chance of our having supplemental vitamins."
Mills said that a New York Times article recently reported that President Gerald R. Ford's administration had come to agreement that it wouldn't fight return to the 1975 fiscal year funding level for medical school enrolation grants.
At the present time, the Senate is deciding whether to pass Health Manpower Program legislation, which directs the capitation grants, he said.
this is passed by Congress and Ford
SEE MED CENTER pare two
Kite trouble Staff Photo by DON PILT
Although he had his own kite flying high, David Barnhill, Lawrence sophomore, entangled in another kite being flown at the free concert at Pottie Lake Sunday. Both kites flew through the crowd.